“A novel is just a story that hasn't yet discovered a way to be brief.” — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I love Javier Marias; I love his novel 'Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me.' — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
“A novel is always more complicated than it seems at the beginning. Indeed a novel should be more complicated than it seems… — John Irving Copy Share Image
The key to finding your remarkability is to think about what makes you surprising, interesting, or novel. — Mark Schaefer Copy Share Image
I love the novel because it's like a love affair. You can just fall into it and keep going, and you never… — Daniel Alarcon Copy Share Image
There follows a little obscenity here, a dash of philosophy there, considerable whining overall, and a modern satirical novel is born. — Renata Adler Copy Share Image
I never conceived of not writing a novel. I believed - oh, God, I believed, it was an article of faith! -… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
“A novel is a kind of conversion experience. We come away from it changed.” — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
There's a real emphasis on being witty in Scotland, even in crime novels. — Denise Mina Copy Share Image
A Heart So White is simply one of the best novels I know. I'm also thrilled by Javier Marías sentences, by how… — Garth Greenwell Copy Share Image
One of the things he liked about playwriting as to any other kind of writing is that a playwright is a w-r-i-g-h-t,… — Simon McBurney Copy Share Image
The Watch is a powerful tale, courageous both in concept and creation: an ancient tale made modern, passed through different narrators in… — Aminatta Forna Copy Share Image
The rule for finding plots for character-centered novels, which is to ask: 'So what's the worst possible thing I can do to… — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
I sailed a bit as a child, but it wasn't until I was around 40, when I was halfway through Patrick O'Brian's… — Billy Campbell Copy Share Image
I suspect there are two kinds of novelists. Those who have a point of view and have something to say and then… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“The Americans have perfected weather forecasts: a model presents a model of the Earth, a map, and jabs at it with her… — Péter Zilahy Copy Share Image
Muse, time has taught me that all metaphysical systems, even historical facts given as truths, are hardly that, so I amuse myself… — Mary Wortley Montagu Copy Share Image
In '94, I started writing a novel about an enormous terrorist act that destroyed the United States. The novel takes place twenty… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
In 2011, I did an internship in Seven Dials, a junction in London where seven roads come together. I'd given up on… — Samantha Shannon Copy Share Image
Letting a maximum number of views be heard regularly is not just a nice philosophical notion. It is the best way any… — Ben Bagdikian Copy Share Image
Just about everything significant in my life happened after I passed forty. I was a housewife and mother, but yearned to be… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
If God is an author and the universe is the biggest novel ever written, I may feel as if I'm the lead… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Well, you know, in any novel you would hope that the hero has someone to push back against, and villains - I… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
It's only in bad novels that people are divided into two camps and have nothing to do with each other. In real… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
When I was at Brown, I wanted to write the great American novel, but I was too scared to take a creative… — Nathaniel Philbrick Copy Share Image
